Pagan Holidays & Celebrations

Midsummer marks the longest day of the year and has long been a moment of spiritual and agricultural importance across Europe. In Norse pagan culture, summer was a time of life, light, and fertility: a brief but vital season in the northern world. But did the ancient Norse truly celebrate a solstice festival? And how…

The summer solstice (when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky) has long been a time of celebration. While ancient cultures like the Romans or the Norse left behind detailed records of Summer Solstice festivals, the Celts didn’t. Still, clues from archaeology, mythology, and folklore help us piece together how important this turning…

Have you ever asked yourself if there is anything such as “the Norse wheel of the year”? or what the Viking calendar looked like? Unlike our modern Gregorian calendar, the year was divided into two seasons only: Summer and Winter. Although the Sun had a pretty important role in their lives, Vikings used the moon phases to keep track of time…

Many of the popular holidays celebrated nowadays have their roots on different Pagan holidays and celebrations. As Christmas gets closer, it is a good time to learn more about the Pagan origins of this popular celebration. There are two main Pre-Christian celebrations that are believed to be the predecessors of Christmas: the Roman holiday of…